Junior Analyst Contracts

Junior Analyst
UK

The median Junior Analyst daily rate in the UK is £290 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 618 750
Rank change year-on-year +69 +132 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Analyst 37 80 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 57 74
10th Percentile £147 £136 £118
25th Percentile £252 £143 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £250 £265
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £318 £280 £398
90th Percentile £351 £400 £489
UK excluding London median daily rate £288 £200 £160
% change year-on-year +43.75% +25.00% -36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile - £12.17 £18.39
25th Percentile - £13.03 £19.00
Median hourly rate £12.30 £14.62 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% -26.90% -8.00%
75th Percentile £14.10 £18.06 £22.40
90th Percentile £15.17 £21.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.30 £14.62 £21.20
% change year-on-year -15.87% -31.04% -2.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Junior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Junior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Junior Analyst in the UK

Junior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Junior Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Junior Analyst in the UK

Junior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior Analyst over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior Analyst in the UK

Junior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Junior Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Junior Analyst in the UK

Junior Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 23 £290 +7.41% 35
UK excluding London +37 23 £288 +43.75% 22
Work from Home +102 12 £313 +11.61% 9
London +79 12 £300 +11.11% 12
Scotland +44 9 £145 +26.18%
Midlands +24 3 £245 -24.62% 2
South East +10 3 £253 +71.19% 4
East of England -3 3 £290 +7.41% 2
West Midlands +13 2 £290 +20.83% 2
Northern Ireland +7 2 £311 +31.05%
North of England +21 1 £325 +62.50% 9
Yorkshire +20 1 £325 +116.67% 5
East Midlands +20 1 £200 -42.86%
South West +9 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 - -

Junior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Junior Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Junior Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (21.62%) Finance
4 7 (18.92%) Agile
4 7 (18.92%) SQL
4 7 (18.92%) Data Analysis
4 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
5 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (16.22%) Degree
5 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
6 5 (13.51%) Business Strategy
7 4 (10.81%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (10.81%) Visualisation
7 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.81%) Banking
7 4 (10.81%) Linux
7 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
7 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (10.81%) Back Office
8 3 (8.11%) Change Management
8 3 (8.11%) CMS
8 3 (8.11%) Validation
8 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (8.11%) SMTP
8 3 (8.11%) FTP
8 3 (8.11%) HTTP
8 3 (8.11%) DNS

Junior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) DNS
1 3 (8.11%) FTP
1 3 (8.11%) HTTP
1 3 (8.11%) SMTP
1 3 (8.11%) SSL
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) MySQL
2 1 (2.70%) Power Query
2 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
1 1 (2.70%) Selenium
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Back Office
5 4 (10.81%) Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Legal
6 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.70%) Automotive
7 1 (2.70%) Electronics
7 1 (2.70%) Front Office
7 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) LDAP
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Cyberattack
1 3 (8.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (8.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) NHS
2 1 (2.70%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (18.92%) Agile
2 7 (18.92%) Data Analysis
3 5 (13.51%) Business Strategy
4 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (10.81%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (10.81%) Visualisation
5 3 (8.11%) Business Analysis
5 3 (8.11%) Change Management
5 3 (8.11%) Incident Response
5 3 (8.11%) ITIL
5 3 (8.11%) User Experience
5 3 (8.11%) Validation
6 2 (5.41%) Data Collection
6 2 (5.41%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (5.41%) Test Assurance
6 2 (5.41%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) SQL
2 2 (5.41%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) VBA
3 1 (2.70%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) MCP
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.41%) PMO
2 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.11%) Darktrace
2 3 (8.11%) FireEye
2 3 (8.11%) IronPort
2 3 (8.11%) LogRhythm
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Splunk
2 3 (8.11%) Symantec
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow